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July 6, 2009

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 1, 2009, covering July 6, 2009.

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    Album cover for Lines; Vines And Trying Times by Jonas Brothers

    Lines; Vines And Trying Times

    Jonas Brothers

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    Album cover for The E.N.D. by The Black Eyed Peas

    The E.N.D.

    The Black Eyed Peas

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    Album cover for Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King by Dave Matthews Band

    Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King

    Dave Matthews Band

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    Album cover for Relapse by Eminem

    Relapse

    Eminem

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    Album cover for Monuments And Melodies by Incubus

    Monuments And Melodies

    Incubus

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Notable Deaths

Vasily Aksyonov

2009Vasily Aksyonov, Russian author and academic (born 1932)[†]

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He became known in the West as the author of The Burn and of Generations of Winter, a family saga following three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.

Robert McNamara

2009Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1916)[†]

Robert Strange McNamara was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years. He played a major role in promoting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.

Historical Context for July 6, 2009

In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]